All news on the topic: Liberal Democrats

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Ambulance waits in Steve Barclay's own constituency among the worst
Category one patients - the most severe - waited an average of 14 minutes for an ambulance to arrive in the Health Secretary's parliamentary seat of North East Cambridgeshire
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Steve Barclay should be docked pay over doctor strikes, Tories told
The Lib Dems have called for Parliament to be recalled so they can table a motion calling for the Health Secretary and his ministerial team to have their pay suspended until the dispute is resolved
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Shepherd's hut and barn close to UK's priciest seaside town on sale for £475k
The tiny shepherd's hut and stone barn sit close to the village of East Prawle in South Devon, with the plot's £475,000 price tag twice that of the UK's average property value
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NHS horror as patients forced to get BUS or drive while waiting for an ambulance
A shock poll has found one in three people needing emergency care have now driven, taken taxis, trains or even buses as desperate patients find their own way to hospital
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Sunak's wife part-owns childcare firm that got up to £10,000 in furlough money
Akshata Murthy is a shareholder in Koru Kids - a nanny and childminder firm which also benefit from a newly-unveiled golden hello policy in the budget
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Police didn't turn up to 45,000 burglaries last year as Tories fail victims
Stark figures obtained by the Liberal Democrats show that there were 45,233 burglaries in 2022 where a police officer didn't visit the scene of the crime
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Tory social care 'betrayal' sparks fury with plan to halve workforce funding
The Department of Health and Social Care quietly announced a move to halve promised cash for the social care workforce to £250 million which critics said would leave planned reforms to the struggling sector 'in tatters'
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Top Five UK Blue Flag beaches worst for sewage discharges as pollution soars
The worst incident was on Blackpool Sands in Devon, where sewage was discharged for 1,014 hours last year during 63 separate sewage dumps onto the beach
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Tory ministers recycle wet wipe ban announcement for the third time in 5 years
Environment Secretary Therese Coffey will pledge to consult shoppers and industry on outlawing wet wipes containing plastic fibres over concerns they are creating fatbergs in Britain's sewers
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Suella Braverman got £700 expenses for rental flat - and STILL hasn't repaid it
The Home Secretary has not paid the money back despite renting the home out for profit during the period for which she had received the payout
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Children 'left in pain' after thousands of NHS operations axed in just one year
A series of Freedom of Information requests by the Liberal Democrats has lifted the lid on the scale of cancelled surgeries affecting kids - and the waits they have to suffer
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'Tory Government is no Robin Hood - they steal from the poor and give to Rishi'
You’ve got to laugh when the Tories falsely claimed Britain was bankrupt under Labour, despite national debt being more of a steep hill than today’s mighty mountain
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Anti-Tory parties urged to oust Conservatives from 'tragedy councils' - see list
The campaign group Compass wants progressive parties to work together rather than compete for votes across swatches of the country, saying cooperation could help oust Conservatives
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Rishi Sunak urged to block suspended Tories from standing for party in election
Currently six former Tory MPs sit in the Commons as independents over disciplinary matters - including allegations of sexual assault, harassment and drug abuse. Only one has ruled out standing in the next election
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Tories quietly hold 'phantom election launch' amid fears of brutal drubbing
The Conservative Party did not invite national media to the launch following warnings they risk losing more than 1,000 council seats across the country when voters head to the polls on 4 May
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Tories accused of 'gimmick' plan to house asylum seekers on disused barges
Immigration minister Robert Jenrick will announce the use of two RAF sites - Wethersfield and Scampton - on Wednesday, but one council is already seeking a High Court injunction.
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Rishi Sunak refuses to ban money-hungry MPs moonlighting with second jobs
The Prime Minister rejected calls to tighten the rules on MP second jobs after ex-ministers Kwasi Kwarteng and Matt Hancock were filmed offering to advise a fake South Korean company for up to £10,000-a-day
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Top Tory MPs ask for £10k daily rate to work for fake Korean company
Former Health Secretary Matt Hancock said agreed to a daily rate of £10,000 to further the interests of the bogus firm - the experiment was set up by campaign group Led By Donkeys
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Three ex-ministers demand change to UK spy laws to prevent 'perverse verdicts'
The demand came in a letter signed by Tory Former Justice Secretary Robert Buckland and Labour former Defence Minister Kevan Jones, a member of the Intelligence and Security
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Tories could lose over 1,000 seats at May local elections, election experts say
Elections experts Collin Rallings and Michael Thrasher said Keir Starmer's Labour Party could scoop 700 seats if there is a swing of 6% from the Conservatives on 4 May.
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NHS hospitals relying on ageing kit - with vital equipment dating back to 1980s
Some 541 pieces of critical equipment such as X ray machines, CT scanners and radiotherapy machines are over a decade old, according to figures from 69 NHS hospital trusts in England
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Government handed out £300million in free 'pollution permits' to UK airlines
The UK’s Emissions Trading Scheme is meant to reduce carbon emissions by forcing big polluters to buy permits for each tonne of carbon they emit, and has seen Ryanair, easyJet and British Airways receive millions of pounds worth of free permits
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Tory politician sparks fury with 'racist' Ian Wright tweet over Gary Lineker row
Alexis McEvoy, a councillor in New Forest, sparked fury with the tweet branded as racist after she called Ian Wright a 'typical black hypocrite' because he supports Gary Lineker
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Cross-party MPs call on Jeremy Hunt to extend free school meals lifeline
A cross-party group of MPs has written to the Chancellor calling on the Government to provide the benefit for all primary school pupils in England, which the Mirror and National Education Union are fighting for, in line with promises in Wales and Scotland.
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Rishi Sunak denies betraying the North again as anger over HS2 delay grows
The Prime Minister hit back at anger over the delay to the flagship project following a massive backlash which saw the Tories accused of betraying voters in the North and Midlands